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Pink Ladies' improvisers continue to improvise in venues across Sydney. Find out more at improvactually

Pink Ladies part of the Awesome Improv Festival, Roxbury, 16 Jun 2011

Linda Calgaro and Karina Francis.
Photograph Dennis Mitchell,
Menace Photography 2010 

Yes!!
You can see the Pink Ladies doing a version of their mockumentary upstairs at the Roxbury, 182 St John's Road, Glebe, 2037, on June 16th, 2011.
It's part of an improvisation festival running every Tuesday and Thursday in June.
Come see us!!
Cast includes: Linette Voller, Cindy Tonkin, Sophie Long, Jess Mallett, Karina Francis, Lucie Booker, Linda Calgaro,

So you want to see someone specific? When they're playing

So perhaps you want to see someone special, someone specific, play in Pink Ladies.

Here is a list of who is playing when, so you can cross-reference it with your diary and do good while having a great time seeing your favourite improvisers:

Lucie Booker: 18/09, 26/09, 1/10, 15/10, 22/10, 29/10
Linda Calgaro: 16/09, 25/09, 26/09, 1/10, 15/10
Erin Foy: 16/09, 25/09, 26/09, 8/10, 22/10, 29/10
Karina Francis: 16/09, 15/10, 29/10, 25/09, 26/09, 22/10
Sophie Long: 16/09, 18/09, 25/09, 26/09, 1/10, 22/10, 29/10
Louise McManus: 16/09, 18/09, 1/10, 8/10, 15/10, 29/10
Jess Mallett: 16/09, 25/09, 8/10, 15/10, 22/10
Chloe Paul: 25/9, 8/10, 15/10, 22/10
Jane Simmons: 1/10, 8/10, 15/10
Karena Thomas: 25/09, 26/09, 1/10, 8/10, 22/10, 29/10
Cindy Tonkin: 18/09, 1/10, 29/10
Linette Voller: 16/09, 18/09, 26/09, 8/10, 22/10

Click on the Cast page to get info about each of these daring women!

photo: Erin Foy gets tough!

Cindy Tonkin - Directing and Producing...

Cindy Tonkin directs and produces this season. If she's very lucky, and all goes well, she may join in the playing by the time we get to the Roxbury in October. October 1 is in fact her birthday, and it's the first night that Pink Ladies is on at the Roxbury, so maybe she'll play then!!


Cindy produced Scared Scriptless Theatresports for several years when it was at the Clarence Hotel in Petersham. In 2009 and 2010 she was instrumental in bringing 2 Chicago improvisers to Sydney to Chicago-up the improv. Cindy from iO Theatre promoted the two seasons which resulted: the Jason Chin Project, and Improvactually (the product of the Bill Arnett Adventure).


Here are Cindy's questions turned on herself:

What’s your all time favourite improvised scene that you were in? why?

It was a very slow scene about a drought, a war and a relationship going bust. In 3 minutes. As a he said, she said. Tom Allen was in that scene and Tess Niemand. I will remember it forever!

What’s your all time favourite you witnessed but weren’t in, and why?

I echo Karena Thomas’ vote that TJ and Dave, who are Chicago based, are pretty damn fine. I see great improvising all the time – when the players/characters are vulnerable, when the relationships are true, and it"s more than just gagging. When the comedy comes from the characters, not the words...

Why do you love improvising?

It frees up a certain part of the brain to be playful, stop thinking and start doing, and because I never laugh so much as when I improvise. Laugh. Laugh. Laugh.

What’s your favourite colour (after pink)?

Orange.

What’s your favourite fruit and why?

Pears. I'm not allergic to them.

What’s your porn name? (first pet + first street you ever lived in)

Snuffy Holtermann.

What’s your ambition for pink ladies?

Make some lovely money for the Breast Cancer Network, because they do such excellent work for women going through the horror that is Breast Cancer. To create shows people will talk about in years to come as a great memory. To get women improvising together so people can remember that women can improvise too. To give Sydney Improv more options for how shows can work…. Not much, right?

Favourite word?

Potato.

Photo: Linette Voller on the left. Cindy Tonkin on the right. This is a scene from Improvactually.

Pink Ladies - Women Make it up

Rehearsals and auditions for the first season of Pink Ladies - Women make it up are underway.
Cutting the improvising community down to just women has created some interesting dynamics and we are all very excited!


So far we have reinvented a format pilfered from New York's Upright Citizens' Brigade, and updated it for our own purposes.
The idea is that we improvise a documentary for you every night. So far we have in rehearsal created A Day in the life of Glebe Markets, a documentary on Pride (and how it goeth before the inevitable fall), and Polka Dots.
While rehearsing for an improvised show is somewhat of a mystery to the non-improvising world, essentially what we aim to do is build trust with each other, create a group mind. While there are a considerable number of women who improvise, it's rare for them all to be on a stage together!
But it will happen in September and October 2010.

Photos in this posting: Linette Voller and Cindy Tonkin arm wrestling; a group scene: Karina Francis, Sophie Long, Jane Simmons and Jess Mallett; Linette Voller conducts.
Photos Sus Brown.